We're the Windows Forms User Education team at Microsoft. We use this space to update folks on developments with Windows Forms docs, publishing doc updates before they're published. Feel free to ask us questions about WinForms, and we'll do our best to an

May, 2006

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Windows Forms Documentation Updates

We're the Windows Forms User Education team at Microsoft. Here you can find updates on documentation related to Windows Forms, ClickOnce, and Smart Client programming before the documentation is released in new doc builds. Check out what we have to offer, test it out, and give us your feedback if you see something amiss! We want YOUR help in making our documentation set the best it can be. In exchange, we hope to give you current information that's useful in your daily work with Windows Forms.

NOTE: The updates posted to this site are static. They will not be updated as they become obsolete; we're publishing them merely to give you a "sneak peek" at what we've written that has yet to be released. The latest publicly available build of the documentation should be considered the only official documentation. Any docs provided here are provided as-is, with no express or implied warranty.

The ClickOnce development team has just alerted us that the current versions of Kensington Mouseworks software have a bad problem in one of their driver DLLs that crashes all ClickOnce applications. The bug occurs in a DLL that is loaded with every Windows...

Lets say you're using the managed WebBrowser control in Windows Forms 2.0. At some point, you realize you want/need access to the underlying unmanaged WebBrowser control. Perhaps you need access to IWebBrower2, or you want to get the unmanaged IServiceProvider...

If you missed it the first time out, check out Ragavendra Prabhu's Application Settings FAQ , which documents some of the trickier points of this great Whidbey technology.
Of course, you might ask, "Why isn't this stuff in the documentation,
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In my last entry, I talked about how I loved extending My.Application in VB to create global methods available to my entire application. A reader mentioned that you can get much of the default functionality associated with the My class by using That ...